This is a 1986 file photo of Charles Manson. On January 25, 1971, in Los Angeles, California, cult leader Charles Manson was convicted, along with followers Susan Atkins, Leslie Van Houten, and Patricia Krenwinkle, of the brutal 1969 murders of actress Sharon Tate and six others. (AP Photo, file)

Charles Manson is pictured en route to a Los Angeles courtroom on Dec. 17, 1970. He is being arraigned on charges of murder in the disappearance of Donald J. "Shorty" Shea, who vanished about the time of the Sharon Tate murders, for which Manson is on trial. (AP Photo)

Combo image shows the five victims slain the night of Aug. 9, 1969 at the Benedict Canyon Estate of Roman Polanski. From left, Voityck Frykowski, Sharon Tate, Stephen Parent, Jay Sebring, and Abigail Folger. The next night, it happened again. Rosemary and Leno LaBianca, a wealthy couple who lived across town, were stabbed to death in their home. Forty seven years later, the ghosts of the Tate-La Bianca murders will not rest. The Charles Manson cult that carried them out haunts the Internet and a new generation is oddly fixated on the nation's most bizarre and notorious killings. (AP Photo/File)

The Hilltop home in Los Angeles' Los Feliz district, about five miles northwest of the downtown section where Mr. and Mrs. Leno A. LaBianca were found murdered Aug. 10, is seen in Los Angeles August 11, 1969. Some aspects of the slayings were similar to those in the murders of actress Sharon Tate and four others in the city's Bel-Air district 10 miles to the west. (AP Photo)

In this 1969 file photo, Susan Atkins, is shown. Atkins was convicted of the 1969 cult killings of seven people, including pregnant actress Sharon Tate. California parole officials on Tuesday, July 15, 2008 considered releasing Atkins, who is dying of brain cancer, from prison, but the governor and others said her decades-old crimes were too brutal for her to be shown such mercy. (AP Photo)

Hippie cult leader Charles Manson, who is accused in multiple murders, is shown on his way to court, Jan. 27, 1970. (AP Photo/David F. Smith)

Members of Charles Manson's "family" are shown outside the courtroom in the Los Angeles Hall of Justice after the hearing, Jan. 27, 1970. Identifiable is Catherine "Gypsy" Share, right. (AP Photo/David F. Smith)

Linda Kasabian, cult member involved in the Tate-LaBianca murder case is seen in custody, 1969. (AP Photo)

Linda Kasabian, left, and Leslie Van Houten, in striped dress, involved in the Tate-LaBianca murder case are seen in 1969. (AP Photo)

Charles Manson, cult leader charged in the Tate-LaBianca murder case, is led to court by guards, in 1969. (AP Photo)

This is a general view of the 500-acre Spahn Movie Ranch in the Santa Susana Mountains of southern California, seen 1969. The ranch was where Charles Manson and his "family" lived at the time of the Tate-LaBianca murders. (AP Photo)

Actress Sharon Tate is shown in 1965. (AP Photo)

Susan Atkins, Patricia Krenwinkel and Leslie Van Houten, left to right, are shown en route to court in Los Angeles, Ca., Aug. 1970. The three women, displaying the symbol X on their foreheads as followers of the Manson cult family, are on trial for killings that included actress Sharon Tate. (AP Photo)

An aerial view of the home of Mr. and Mrs. Leno A. LaBianca, who were found slain on August 10 in the Los Feliz district of Los Angeles, is seen on Aug 13, 1969. Some aspects of the slayings were similar to those in the murders of actress Sharon Tate and four others in the city's Bel-Air district 10 miles to the west. (AP Photo)

Cult leader Charles Manson, who is linked to the Sharon Tate murders, is seen 1969. (AP Photo)

Charles Manson is shown, 1969. (AP Photo)

Police officers stand on the property of actress Sharon Tate where the bodies of five persons, including Tate, were found murdered by members of the Manson cult family, August 9, 1969. (AP Photo)

The body of actress Sharon Tate is taken from her rented house on Cielo Drive in Beverly Hills, Calif., on Aug. 9, 1969. Tate, who was eight months pregnant, and four other persons were found murdered by American cult-leader Charles Manson and his followers. Tate, the wife of director Roman Polanski, was born in 1943. (AP Photo)

This is an Aug. 20, 1969 view of the area in the living room of the home of actress Sharon Tate in Los Angeles where she and a friend, hair stylist Jay Sebing, were found slain about a week ealier. Their bodies were found in front of the couch. Three other victims were found outside the house. (AP Photo/Hollywood Citizen-News/Valley Times, Peter Banks)

This is an aerial views of the home in the Los Angeles Bel-Air district rented by film director Roman Polanski and his wife, actress Sharon Tate, where Tate and four others were murdered, shown Aug. 1969. (AP Photo)

This is the Watson Grocery & Station where Charles Tex Watson, who is accused in the slaying of Sharon Tate, worked with his father in northeast of Dallas, Dec. 2, 1969, Copeville, Tex. His father, C.D. Watson in hat, talks with a soft drink salesman. (AP Photo/Ferd Kaufman)

Trash litters the breezeway at Barker Ranch House, refuge of Charles Manson in this Dec. 5, 1969 file photo. The high desert wasteland outside of town hides the ranch where a paranoid Charles Manson and his followers holed up after their orgy of murder nearly four decades ago. (AP Photo, file)

Richard Caballero, attorney for Susan Denise Atkins, left, tells newsmen on Dec.2, 1969 in Santa Monica, California, that his client was at the scenes of the slayings of Sharon Tate and four others at her home and of Leno and Rosemary LaBianca but that she was under a "hypnotic spell" and had "nothing to do with the murders." Caballero, whose client is charged in another murder, said she was "hypnotized" and "intrigued" into joining a cult led by Charles Manson, 34, now in jail at Independence, California. (AP Photo/Wally Fong)

The bodies of Leno A. LaBianca, owner of six supermarkets, and his wife, Rosemary, were found in the living room and bedroom of their home, above, near Griffith Park in Los Angeles, Aug. 11, 1969 under some circumstances similar to those of the murders of five persons in Bel-Air. Both had been stabbed and both had pillow case hoods over their heads. The boat on a trailer parked on the street in foreground was owned by the LaBiancas. (AP Photo/George Brich)

Charles Manson is escorted by officers while en route to court in Independence, Calif., Dec. 3, 1969. Manson and three women co-defendants were convicted and sentenced to death after the 10-month trial that involved the murders of actress Sharon Tate and six others in the hills near Hollywood, Calif. Their sentences were later commuted to life when the death penalty was briefly outlawed. (AP Photo)

Linda Kasabian, 20, center, accompanied by Massachusetts State Troopers, looks around her coat collar as she walks to airliner at Logan International Airport, Wednesday, Dec. 3, 1969, Boston, Mass. Miss Kasabian is being returned to California in connection with the slaying of actress Sharon Tate and six others. (AP Photo)

Linda Louise Kasabian, left, brought to Los Angeles from Concord, New Hampshire, where she surrendered on a murder warrant, is led down a corridor on Dec.4, 1969 of the Los Angeles Hall of Justice after her arraignment in Los Angeles. The girl, mother of an 18-month-old baby and five months pregnant, is one of three persons arrested in the slayings of Sharon Tate and others. (AP Photo/Wally Fong)

Patricia Krenwinkel, 22, of Los Angeles, left, is shown in the courthouse with her attorney, M.A. Marsal before a hearing at which Marsal sought her release on bond, Thursday, Dec. 4, 1969, Mobile, Ala. She bad been arrested on a fugitives warrant based on murder charges in Los Angeles in the Sharon Tate murder case. A judge said he would rule on Friday. (AP Photo)

Charles Manson, hippie cult leader, is led upstairs to court in Independence, Calif., Dec. 3, 1969. At left is public defender Fred Schaefer. (AP Photo/Harold Filan)

Susan Denise Atkins, 21, leaves the Los Angeles county grand jury room, Dec. 6, 1969 in Los Angeles after testifying for 2 hours and 15 minutes about the slayings of actress Sharon Tate and six others. Her attorney, Richard Caballero, said she told the grand jury "all the details." (AP Photo/Harold Filan)

Leslie Van Houten, 19, a member of Charles Manson's "family" who is charged with the murders of Leno and Rosemary LaBianca, is escorted by two deputy sheriffs as she leaves the courtroom in Los Angeles, Dec. 19, 1969 after a brief hearing at which time she was appointed a new attorney. The court appointed Marvin Part to represented Ms. Van Houten after her previous attorney said she and her family could not pay his fees. (AP Photo/George Brich)

Charles M. Manson, the hippie-style cult leader charged with the killings of actress Sharon Tate and six others, leaves a Los Angeles courtroom with his pencils and paper after the judge ordered a plea of innocent, Jan. 29, 1970. Manson, acting as his own lawyer, responded with questions of his own each time the judge asked for a plea. It was his first court appearance since shaving his beard and mustache. (AP Photo)

Susan Atkins, whose testimony led to the grand jury indictments of Charles Manson and members of his "family," is questioned by newsmen as she arrived at the Los Angeles County Jail, March 5, 1970, for a face-to-face meeting with Manson, the first since the group's murder indictments. (AP Photo)

Superior Court Judge Charles H. Older, shown June 1970, denied again a motion for mistrial by Charles Manson's attorney in the Sharon Tate murder case in Los Angeles, Aug. 4, 1970. The motion was based on President Nixon's comment on the trial and Manson. (AP Photo)

Susan Atkins, appearing cheerful and wearing a low-cut dress, is escorted by sheriff's deputies to a court appearance, Feb. 4, 1970 in Los Angeles. She and other alleged members of the Charles Manson hippie clan are accused of seven murders, including that of actress Sharon Tate. Ms. Atkins was successful in winning a delay in start of her trial until March. (AP Photo)

Charles Tex Watson, co-defendant in the Manson case, center, is shown as he was extradited, Sept. 11, 1970, McKinney, Tex. Watson had successfully fought extradition to stand trial in Los Angeles for months. The rest of the group is unidentified. (AP Photo)

Deputy District Attorney Vincent Bugliosi arrives at a Los Angeles courtroom July 24, 1970, to present the opening argument in the trial of Charles Manson and three others for the slayings of actress Sharon Tate and six others in Los Angeles. He said a song by the Beatles inspired Manson to order the slayings in order to start a "black-white revolution." (AP Photo/Wally Fong )

FILE - In this Sept. 23, 1970 file photo, Barbara Hoyt, 19, former member of Charles Manson's hippie "family" arrives at court to testify as a prosecution witness in the Tate-La Bianca murder trial in Los Angeles. On Aug. 9, 1969, two naive 17-year-olds were launched on a path toward the most unlikely of friendships. That infamous night four young people under the sway of a charismatic career criminal slipped into a home in a neighborhood of Hollywood glitterati, then bludgeoned and stabbed rising young actress Sharon Tate, her friend and coffee heiress Abigail Folger, and two others. (AP Photo/Wally Fong, File)

FILE - This March 1, 1971, file photo shows Charles Tex Watson, right, arriving for court in Los Angeles, Calif. A Texas judge is expected to decide Tuesday, May 29, 2012, whether eight hours of audio recordings of conversations between a the former Manson family member and his attorney should be given to Los Angeles police. Watson is serving a life sentence for his role in the 1969 Tate-La Bianca murders. (AP Photo/Wally Fong, File)

Vincent Bugliosi, Chief Prosecutor in the trial of Manson and three young women, talk with newsmen outside the courtroom Monday, Jan. 26, 1971 in Los Angeles. The four defendants had just been found guilty of first degree murder. (AP Photo)

Leslie Van Houten leaves the sheriff's van that brought her to the Criminal Courts Building in Los Angeles, July 22, 1977 where the six-man, six-woman jury is deliberating charges against her in the murder of Leno and Rosemary LaBianca in August of 1969. The jury, in its 12th day of deliberations, returned to court to ask for definitions involving the question of diminished mental capacity. (AP Photo)

Dressed in jail denims, three women who are co-defendants with Charles M. Manson in the Sharon Tate murder trial, walk toward a Los Angeles courtroom, Aug. 6, 1979. The women are on their way to listen to further cross-examination of Linda Kasabian, the state's principal witness against them. Left to right are: Leslie Van Houten, Susan Atkins and Patricia Krenwinkel. (AP Photo/Wally Fong)

Susan Atkins, former member of the Charles Manson clan, who was convicted of murder in the Tate-LaBianca killings, listens during parole hearing at the California Institution for Women in Chino, Calif., Dec. 20, 1989. Her parole was denied unanimously. (AP Photo/Alan Greth)

This 1992 file photo shows the Benedict Canyon estate, sheltered in the hills of Los Angeles, where actress Sharon Tate was murdered along with four others on the night of Aug. 9, 1969. Manson "family" members were kids. Vulnerable, alienated, running away from a world wracked by war and rebellion. They turned to a cult leader for love and wound up tied to a web of unimaginable evil, and now, on the brink of old age, they are the haunted. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon, File)

Leslie Van Houten, 50, speaks during her parole hearing at the California Institution for Women in Chino, Calif., Tuesday, June 6, 2000. Van Houten, a former Charles Manson follower, was convicted in the 1969 murders of Rosemary and Leno LaBianca. Van Houten, who is is serving life sentence, was denied parol for the 13th time. (AP Photo/Chris Urso, Pool)

Patricia Krenwinkel, shown, Sept., 1985. (AP Photo)

Members of Charles Manson's "family" congregate in Los Angeles Hall of Justice, Feb. 24, 1970, for arraignment of Patricia Krenwinkel, a defendant in the Sharon Tate murder case. None of these is accused. From left: Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, Sandra Good, Mark Ross, Paul Watkins and Catherine "Gypsy" Share holding Catherine Good's son Ivan. Two men partially hidden in back are unidentified. (AP Photo/Wally Fong)

Four witnesses expected to be among the first called in the Tate-LaBianca murder trial sit in a corridor of the Los Angeles Hall of Justice, July 21, 1970 waiting to be summoned into the courtroom. Left to right: Paul J. Tate, father of actress Sharon Tate; Winifred Chapman, who discovered the five bodies at the Tate Home; Dennis Hearst, whose connection with the case was not immediately revealed; and Wilfred Parent, father of a victim, Steven Parent. At far left is another witness, William E. Garretson, caretaker at the Tate home. (AP Photo/Wally Fong)

Attorneys Ronald Hughes, left, and Paul Fitzgerald, seen Aug. 3, 1970, who represent Charles Manson and others being tried for murder in Los Angeles, tell newsmen outside the courtroom they object to President Nixon saying in Los Angeles that Manson was "Guilty, directly or indirectly, of eight murders." Kanarek later moved for a mistrial, but it was denied. (AP Photo)

Charles "Tex" Watson is led back to jail from a courtroom in Los Angeles, Oct. 12, 1971, after he was convicted of seven counts of first-degree murder and one of conspiracy to commit murder in the Tate-LaBianca slayings. Watson, a member of the Charles Manson "family," was the last of five defendants to be convicted in the slayings. (AP-Photo)

Charles Manson is pictured en route to the courtroom after being told the jury had decided on his punishment for the Sharon Tate murders in Los Angeles, Ca., on April 19, 1971. Manson began making derogatory remarks as soon as he entered the courtroom and was taken to another room before the jury sentenced him and three women co-defendents to death in the gas chamber. (AP Photo)

Leslie Van Houten, gestures while answering a question posed to her by a member of the parole board at her parole hearing in Frontera, Calif., July 3, 1987. Ms. Van Houten, a Charles Manson follower, lost her seventh bid for parole because of her role in the grisly Tate-LaBianca slayings. (AP Photo/Douglas C. Pizac)

File - (AP) Front entrace to Tate Home - Bloodstains are still on the flagstone porch at the front door of the home af actress Sharon Tate in Los Angeles today. Police believe one of the victims of the multiple killing at the home 11 days ago staggered out the door after being shot or stabbed. The actress and four others were mysteriously slain. (AP-Photo/Peter Banks , Valley Times) 1969

A photo provided by the California Department of Corrections shows 77-year-old serial killer Charles Manson Wed., April 4, 2012. Manson will have an April 11, 2011 parole hearing in California. (AP Photos/California Department of Corrections)

Debra Tate, sister of Sharon Tate, and Louis Smalvino, nephew of Leno LaBianca, both speak in opposition to release at a parole hearing for former Charles Manson follower Leslie Van Houten, convicted in the 1969 murders of Rosemary and Leno LaBianca, in a hearing room at the California Institution for Women at Frontera, in Corona, Calif., Tuesday, July 6, 2010. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)

Photo dated 1969 of American actress Sharon Tate, wife of director Roman Polanski, who was murderered, eight months pregnant, with four others persons in the couple's mansion in Beverly Hills 09 August 1969. Charles Manson and members of his cult were sentenced to death for these murders, but were spared the death penalty due to a Supreme Court ruling against capital punishment. August 9, 2009 marks the 40th anniversary of the brutal murders. (STF/AFP/Getty Images)

American film actress Sharon Tate (1943 - 1969) at her London wedding with Polish actor and director Roman Polanski. Sharon was murdered by followers of Charles Manson, when heavily pregnant with Roman's baby. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

A Life magazine with Charles Manson on the cover is left on a the kitchen table in the abandoned Barker Ranch house, Friday, Feb. 22, 2008 in the Panamint Mountains west of Death Valley National Park, Calif. Manson and his followers retreated to the Barker Ranch after a killing spree during the summer of 1969.The high desert wasteland outside of town hides the ranch where a paranoid Charles Manson and his followers holed up after their orgy of murder nearly four decades ago. (AP Photo/Gary Kazanjian)

On this day in 1969, members of Charles Manson's "family" killed five people in movie director Roman Polanski's Beverly Hills, California, home, including Polanski's pregnant wife, actress Sharon Tate. The next night, Rosemary and Leno LaBianca, a wealthy couple who lived across town, were stabbed to death in their home.